Slaughter and Conquest

"It seems this is all you're capable of."

The avatar's contemptuous voice rang in the ears of the three "gods."

He stood in the void with his hands clasped behind his back.

He looked utterly composed, his body shrouded in a layer of mystical radiance.

The radiance contained countless strands of golden Dou Qi. A closer look revealed silver light flickering in and out of sight as it flowed through them, forming an illusory, strange "feather robe"!

"Golden Feather Robe!"

This was a defensive secret technique Qie Qiong had created after studying the "Golden Light" secret manual and combining it with his own True Meaning of Metal at the peak of the first realm.

It could even rival advanced secret techniques created by Demigods.

Those Demigods were not the so-called Demigods of the Extreme Thunder World, but Demigods who were only one step away from becoming gods.

It wove the True Meaning of Metal and Dou Qi into feathers around the body, forming a "feather robe" with terrifying defensive power.

Later, Qie Qiong comprehended the Space Myriad Existences Realm and added the power of space to it, giving it the ability to redirect part of an attack.

The "Golden Feather Robe," which had originally barely met the threshold of an advanced secret technique, now ranked in the middle among advanced secret techniques.

The three gods watched as their combined attack, which they had expected to be powerful enough to kill another Peak Saint Rank expert, struck the pale golden "feather robe," yet left it utterly undamaged.

Disbelief appeared on the faces of the three "gods."

When they had mastered the attack, they had discussed how it would be enough to kill the "God of Vajra" in an instant, and even the "God of Extreme Thunder" would be severely injured.

"Not a scratch?! That's impossible!" the God of Fire roared hysterically.

The God of Hurricanes saw something and said in despair, "True Meaning... he's mastered a complete True Meaning! That robe was formed from True Meaning."

True Meaning, and only True Meaning, could have allowed this mysterious man, who was at the same level as them, to come away unscathed after taking their decisive attack head-on.

The Sea Goddess's face also went pale, and she said without hesitation, "Run in different directions."

She could already see that their opponent was absurdly powerful. Now that their combined attack had failed, continuing to fight would only mean throwing their lives away.

But then the avatar moved.

Having confirmed the effect of the "Golden Feather Robe," he had no need to play with them any longer.

"Game over."

The icy voice rang in their ears.

The avatar vanished from where he stood.

As if merging into space, he flickered repeatedly through the void. This was a basic application that came with comprehending the Space Myriad Existences Realm.

Qie Qiong called it Spatial Warp.

With the first flicker, Qie Qiong arrived in front of the God of Fire.

Terrified, the God of Fire could only swing the giant hammer he had just taken from his Space Ring with all his might.

Sshk!

A barely perceptible glint of golden light flashed.

It seemed to cross space itself.

The golden light ignored the flames protecting the God of Fire and struck precisely between his brows.

The flames on the "God of Fire" went out instantly, and his body went rigid. Before he could fall, the avatar put him away.

This so-called God of Fire, just as Qie Qiong had thought earlier, had not lasted even one move.

Space was simply too powerful, no matter the world.

The avatar had killed the "God of Fire" in the blink of an eye.

By this time, the Sea Goddess had transformed into a stream of azure water speeding desperately into the distance.

She had even resorted to burning her Dou Qi and essence blood, clearly using some unknown secret technique.

At the same time, she gathered the Water of Myriad Existences between Heaven and Earth to raise waves ten thousand feet high, attempting to keep the avatar from approaching.

But it was no use. The avatar flickered, crossed the enormous waves, and appeared beside her.

The avatar thrust out a finger once more.

Hum!

Another streak of golden sword light appeared. The Sea Goddess's body jerked to a halt, and a hole appeared in her chest out of thin air.

Under the influence of the secret technique, her body shattered like colored glass and burst apart with a crash, scattering blue droplets across the sky.

She was the only one so far whose body Qie Qiong had not obtained.

The avatar clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction and shook his head with some regret. He looked in the direction of the "God of Hurricanes"; he could not let this one go to waste.

His figure flickered, and he appeared before the fleeing "God of Hurricanes."

The "God of Hurricanes" was shocked. He transformed into a rapidly spinning cyan whirlwind, attempting to tear the avatar apart, but even more than that, he wanted to use the force to escape.

The avatar did not even move.

He merely looked at him indifferently and uttered one word: "Suppress."

As if his words were law, the Metal of Myriad Existences between Heaven and Earth transformed into binding chains that filled the world in an instant.

A cage made of solid metal appeared around the God of Hurricanes, and countless golden threads extended from it and wound around him.

The whirling wind was forcibly frozen, and his fleeing form was held fast in midair.

In the mortal world, such a sight would never have appeared: a tangible object trapping intangible wind.

The "God of Hurricanes" could no longer maintain his cyan whirlwind form and returned to human form.

Nothing remained in the God of Hurricanes' eyes but boundless terror.

The avatar slowly raised a hand toward the "God of Hurricanes," who was bound in midair and unable to move, and gently clenched it.

Whoosh!

Inside the cage, several threads slowly came together to form a golden needle, which pierced the "God of Hurricanes" between the brows in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, the three "Deities" who stood at the pinnacle of the world had fallen.

The smoke had yet to fully dissipate, but the "three gods" who had created it were already history.

Qie Qiong's avatar stood in the void as the layer of pale golden "feather robes" around him quietly faded from sight.

He hurried deeper into the "God of Hurricanes'" lair. He did not have much time; once he was done here, he still had the other two's lairs to clean out.

While the Dou Qi avatar went after the three "gods," Qie Qiong's original body transformed into a streak of golden lightning and headed for the Extreme Thunder Mountain Range.

According to the "God of Vajra's" records, the ancestor of the "God of Extreme Thunder" was the Transcendent native who had gained the most benefits back then?

He had also obtained an array, which he installed in the Extreme Thunder Mountain Range.

Thus, the "God of Extreme Thunder" spent most of his time in his own lair.

As soon as Qie Qiong approached the mountain range, an irresistible pressure bore down on him as though it were solid. Dense lightning particles filled the air, making even his Dou Qi more active.

If Qie Qiong had not been less adept in the Thunder of Myriad Existences, fighting here could have increased his strength somewhat, to say nothing of the "God of Extreme Thunder."

The corners of Qie Qiong's mouth curled up. "Looks like this will be a tough fight."

"There really is an array, and it's extraordinarily intricate. It matches the mountain range's earth veins and the laws of lightning perfectly." Qie Qiong's gaze sharpened slightly.

He could clearly sense an invisible will enveloping the core region of the mountain range.

That will was full of tyranny and destruction. It was the "God of Extreme Thunder."

And the core of that will was connected to an endlessly operating energy hub deep within the mountains—a massive alchemical array that covered an astonishing area.

"Just how useless were those reincarnators back then, to get themselves killed by the natives?"

Although he had already lamented it many times, Qie Qiong could not resist cursing them again.

Rumble-!

Before Qie Qiong could investigate further, he had already been discovered upon entering the Extreme Thunder Mountain Range. Besides, he had made no effort to conceal himself.

The Extreme Thunder Mountain Range, which had long been gathering strength, seemed utterly enraged.

Ten thousand bolts of lightning struck at once.

The lightning gathered in the clouds no longer slithered slowly like snakes. Instead, it converged into dozens of deep purple lightning pillars as thick as mountain peaks.

They poured down precisely where Qie Qiong stood!

The power contained in every lightning pillar was enough to kill an Early Saint Rank Transcendent in an instant.

This was the God of Extreme Thunder's lair. With the array empowering him, his control over the lightning between Heaven and Earth had reached a terrifying level, enough to strike fear into ordinary Transcendents of the same rank.

Of course, that did not include Qie Qiong.

Faced with this world-destroying attack, Qie Qiong simply stood there and used the "Golden Feather Robe."

The pale golden feather robe was condensed until it seemed solid.

The main difference between Qie Qiong and his Dou Qi avatar was that Qie Qiong's Dou Qi was nearly inexhaustible. That was why one feather robe was illusory while the other appeared solid.

"Strange Deity, how dare you enter my divine kingdom? Do you think killing that fool Vajra makes you the equal of the great God of Thunder?" The voice came from the grandest spired metal palace, filled with boundless rage.

With the roar, a three-meter-tall giant clad in dark blue armor patterned with lightning stepped out of the palace, walking through the void.

His eyes were completely filled with brilliant white lightning, like two miniature stars of thunder.

A pressure far surpassing that of an ordinary Peak Saint Rank expert descended with a roar. With the array's support, he had temporarily obtained the power of the complete seventh-grade "True Meaning of Extreme Thunder."

He held a massive lightning spear, and the arcs of electricity dancing at its tip seemed to warp the entire space around it.

"A divine kingdom?" Qie Qiong stood in the void, his voice cold. "A frog at the bottom of a well! This world changes hands today."

Golden Thunder Light instantly condensed beside Qie Qiong, forming a longsword.

He took the longsword in hand and thrust it straight at the newly emerged God of Extreme Thunder.

"Arrogant." The God of Extreme Thunder sneered and raised his lightning spear high.

He drew in the purple lightning from the surrounding Heaven and Earth, concentrating it on the spear tip.

The array covering the entire Extreme Thunder Mountain Range resonated, channeling its power into the attack.

Clang-!

The Golden Thunder divine blade collided head-on with the lightning spear filled with destructive thunder.

A tremendous boom exploded in the air, and a ring-shaped shock wave of highly compressed energy swept outward.

Qie Qiong's Golden Thunder longsword shattered from the impact, and he himself staggered back several steps.

A close look would have revealed fine cracks in several places on the outside of the "Golden Feather Robe" covering his body, but they immediately disappeared.

That was only the outermost layer, however. When he designed the secret technique, he had drawn inspiration from the layered arrangement of a bird's feathers.

The "God of Extreme Thunder" was also driven back several steps, but the lightning armor covering his body blazed with light, channeling the recoil into the mountain range and the array beneath his feet. He suffered no substantive damage.

With one waxing as the other waned, and with the array empowering his opponent on his home ground, the two were evenly matched.

The gap between their True Meanings was enormous, after all.

"Do you see? This is my power," the God of Extreme Thunder said with a wild laugh.

He raised his lightning spear again, and countless bolts of lightning converged once more. Clearly, he intended to unleash the same attack again.

Just as the God of Extreme Thunder prepared to unleash that supremely powerful strike, Qie Qiong moved.

He did not meet the lightning spear, which held the might of Heaven and Earth, head-on again. Instead, his figure instantly merged into the void.

Within the array, long-distance teleportation was useless.

But with his first-level mastery of the Space Myriad Existences Realm, Qie Qiong could still teleport over short distances.

"Hmm?!" The "God of Extreme Thunder" was shocked. His raised lightning spear immediately lost its target.

Qie Qiong's figure instantly appeared behind and to one side of him.

The metal palace behind the God of Extreme Thunder was one of the array's core nodes, and it was supplying him with a steady stream of energy.

"Extreme Metal Flowing Light Sword," Qie Qiong said softly, bringing his fingers together.

A streak of dark golden sword light seemed to ignore the distance of space. Amid the "God of Extreme Thunder's" roar, it pierced the core alchemical node in the dome of the metal palace.

The light of the vast array enveloping the Extreme Thunder Mountain Range abruptly dimmed.

The array's core, which connected Heaven and Earth and supplied endless lightning power, was disrupted.

The immense pressure that had surrounded the God of Extreme Thunder receded like the tide.

Although he was still powerful, he no longer had the might he had shown when he was evenly matched with Qie Qiong moments ago.

The lightning spear in his hand also lost the support of further power. It flickered unsteadily, its strength plummeting.

"No!!!" The God of Extreme Thunder let out a desperate roar.

He could feel with absolute clarity that the foundation of the divine kingdom that supported his "invincibility" was collapsing.

Without the array's support, he was merely a Peak Saint Rank Transcendent who had comprehended the embryonic form of the seventh-grade True Meaning of Extreme Thunder.

Although he was fairly powerful among Transcendents, he fell far short of Qie Qiong.

Qie Qiong did not pause for a moment.

He flashed in front of the God of Extreme Thunder again.

The True Meaning of Metal erupted in full!

Dark golden light covered Qie Qiong's entire right hand. He did not use the ranged attack form of the "Extreme Metal Flowing Light Sword" again.

Instead, he infused it into his right hand, using his fist as the blade. His entire body became a golden longsword that seemed to pierce Heaven and Earth.

Crack.

The longsword struck the greatly weakened lightning spear.

The spear shaft was severed instantly.

The longsword did not stop.

It plunged straight into the chest of the God of Extreme Thunder's lightning-patterned armor.

Pfft-

The longsword pierced through his body.

The power of metal and Dou Qi erupted wildly inside the God of Extreme Thunder.

His powerful Saint Rank body was torn apart in an instant, and even his heart was reduced to dust.

"Urgh..." The Thunder Light in the God of Extreme Thunder's eyes gradually went out.

He looked down in disbelief at the longsword through his chest, which had completely severed his life force.

Expressionless, Qie Qiong put the "God of Extreme Thunder's" corpse into his Space Ring.

The light of the array covering the mountain range gradually faded.

The violent thunderclouds filling the sky slipped out of control and returned to the disorderly state they had been in a thousand years ago.

Only the charred ruins and the metal palace, with its core array node destroyed, remained as proof of the terrifying battle that had just taken place.

The last Deity of the Extreme Thunder World, the God of Extreme Thunder, had fallen!

Qie Qiong stood in the void, looking down at the palace below.

The five great natives had all been slain, and the world had lost its strongest experts.

As for the other Transcendents, it was fine with Qie Qiong if they obeyed. If they did not, he had ways of dealing with disobedience.

This small Transcendent world was like someone utterly... and had thus fallen completely under his control.

"Extreme Thunder World..." Qie Qiong's voice echoed between heaven and earth. "From this day forth, you are my world."